2/ Let us explore @Fahdhusain's writings a bit. What in the World does he mean by ‘Would it be prudent for the party to fight the election by further fuelling its anti-establishment position and framing its ideology in civil-military terms?’ Is he saying that Nawaz Sharif’s 3/
3/ calling out the ‘Political Generals’, Bajwa and Faiz for rigging GE 2018 (which they did in broad daylight; on Live TV, and in our bloody faces - ask Hony. Major @LodhiMaleeha) and plunging the country into several crises ‘framing’ the PMLN’s ‘ideology’ in Civil-Military 4/
4/ (read Army) terms? So, whilst the #DeepState can shoot the country’s first Prime Minister in the head; if it (read Political Generals) can judicially murder the first elected Prime Minister; if self-same can heap abuse upon and murder a twice-elected first woman Prime 5/
5/ Minister in the Islamic World; if self-same can heap abuse upon and call a traitor and dismiss in cahoots with the Judiciary, a thrice-elected Prime Minister and jail him after a cooked-up trial it is quite alright, but if that same thrice-elected Prime Minister criticises 6/
6/ the Political Generals it is ‘framing ideology in Civil-Military terms’ and is a cardinal sin? Boggles the senses, does it not?
Again: ‘Or would it make sense for the PML-N to re-construct a working relationship with the establishment before the elections so it can manage 7/
7/ a level-playing field and cash in its popularity?’ Is he saying that the playing field is skewed AGAINST the PMLN? Boggles the senses does it not? WHEN will our major newspapers say the truth out LOUD? WHEN will they say, angrily, that 'Bloody Civilians have ALWAYS had a 8/
8/ 'skewed' playing field in this poor country? WHEN will they call out the Mother Of All Agencies and its thugs for beating Saleem Shehzad to death and dumping his body in the Upper Jhelum Canal (the nearest canal to Islamabad!)? WHEN will they stop pussyfooting and writing 9/
9/ mealy-mouthed editorials and too clever by half Op-ed pieces, and call out the ONLY 'Agency' that has the effrontery to shoot @HamidMirPAK and @AbsarAlamHaider; kidnap @Matiullahjan919 and savagely beat up @UmarCheema1 and @AsadAToor. I mean, the blessed country is near 10/
10/ death for God's sake! An anecdote: Several years ago some 'Agency' thugs had pulled some poor unfortunate into a police station in Islamabad and proceeded to beat the poor chap. The SHO who was watching the proceedings stopped them and said, 'Tussi Fauji O', tuhanun marna 11/
11/ nahein anda keh b*&^@#$d nuun takleef vee hovay par marray naeen'. He then asked his Muharrar to show the thugs HOW to beat someone without killing him. The man screamed in pain and defecated in his shalwar --- but lived, to be beaten again. Capiche?
12/ Shame on me for forgetting Rana Sanaullah who was kidnapped by the ISI in Faisalabad, who then shaved his head and moustaches and eyebrows; beat him savagely and then sprayed him with petrol so his open cuts and wounds would hurt all the more before dropping him off 13/
13/ outside town shirtless. Capiche? We are facing an out of control, heartless, mindless monster...!!
14/ Much more #SHAME on me for forgetting Janab Makhdoom @javedhashmi55 Sahib whose daughter's house and businesses were bulldozed by this terrible #FascistJunta just the other day for Makhdoom Sahib speaking truth to power! #Shame!!
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You are the son of a fearless; honest; outspoken lady who said it like it is, with humour, courtesy and verve, and it was a pleasure to argue with her. Sadly, she was taken from us too soon, may the Lord rest her. Whilst it would be difficult to match her, it certainly does 2/
2/ not behoove you, the holder of so many posts within the Party, AND the the Government of Sindh to obfuscate and confuse. You say MNA @Aliwazirna50 's case is pending in the Honourable the Sindh High Court, and tongue-in-cheek add that the 'judiciary is independent since the 3/
3/ days of Iftikhar Chaudhry' perhaps as a snide reference to my support for the 'independence' of the judiciary in contrast to that of the PPP! My question to you and @sherryrehman and @ShahNafisa and @MediaCellPPP and @Mustafa_PPP was/is simple: Is MNA @Aliwazirna50 your 4/
It was a balmy Friday afternoon and Probyns (5) Horse was billeted under tents. (1951/2). Capt. Gul Hasan, the Adjutant and my Uncle (@HarounRashid2 father's younger brother) were sitting outside the Mess drinking beer. In the Mosque which was several hundred yards the Maulvi 2/
2/ who was belting out the Khutba, says 'aur wo dekho tumhare Afsar sharaab pee rahein hai'. The his bad luck a well-timed gust of wind carried the words to the mess. Gul Hasan sent for the Naib Risaldar Adjutant, ordered the Maulvi's close arrest and to be marched before him 3/
3/ as soon as the prayers were over. Lo! A while later the Maulvi, bayonet carrying Sawars fore and aft of him was marched before the Adjutant who had shifted to his office tent for the 'peshi'. 'Dekho, Maulvi, Tum ko koi haq nahein pohanchta kissi peh tehmat lagana; Jawano 4/
@Razarumi@murtazasolangi@husainhaqqani Excellent programme gentlemen, kudos. Exactly what many of us have been saying for well on 30 years, put out so succinctly by Ambassador Haqqani. However, 1) I would not be too sanguine about most of the Army being above politics: even 2/
2/ younger officers are discussing politics (in deprecating terms) in family gatherings, (and even in Messes which was strictly forbidden on pain of severe punishment during my time in the Army); and, 2) Perhaps when discussing the COAS's wanting to make Pakistan a 'normal' 3/
3/ country, a reference could have been made to then Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif who was actually turfed out of office in a disgraceful manner for saying exactly that, years before the COAS, with his party then being #CHEATED out of victory in Election 2018. We know exactly 4/
There were some others like Sahibzada, Sirji, striking attitudes: Lt. Gen. Atiqur (Turk) Rehman, M.C. (RIP) for one. I was also a great admirer (being a stickler for discipline myself) hearing stories of how he, as Adjutant General would stop his staff car and make a passing 2/
2/ Sepoy (in this case my batman, The Late No. 2436392 L/Nk Azam Ali (RIP) at that time attending the ‘Dog Handler's Course’ in Rawalpindi), who told me the story himself when I joined the 4th Battalion The Baluch Regiment in 1966) do ten push-ups for saluting in a slovenly 3/
3/ manner. Knowing Azam Ali, richly deserved of course! Now look at his other side. It was the summer of 1989 and I had taken some reading material with me to the farm. @TFT_ had just come out and reading it on the bus saw an interview of the General’s in which to a question 4/
@Razarumi@murtazasolangi@M_Suharwardy@NadiaNaqi Excellent show today; most excellent ending, Raza. a) Everyone is still on the same page for the 10-Year Presidential/Army/Fascist/One-Party Rule: if not #Selectednikka, someone else. Note: there are many rats available: 2/
2/ @SMQ; #Shafqat_Mahmood; @JahangirKTareen (who is an old #DeepState man), etcetera; b) The only way forward is for democratic politicians to forget 'Mufahmat' (whatever THAT beast means, for Bloody Civilians and Generals are hardly equals!) and demand a new social contract 3/
3/ with the Political Generals, insisting on limiting them to the confines laid out in the Constitution. And then free and fair elections. NB: The condition that the country is in after 3-years of #nikka's ministrations does not lend itself to perpetuating this #Shitshow! 4/
Whilst #nikkaNiazi aka @ImranKhanPTI spoke exactly like the ill-informed, vile #Dolt he is, and whilst I intimately know some excellent FS officers such as Ashraf Jehangir Qazi and Shahid Malik and Masood Khalid and some others, some of you folk deserve ALL the kicks in the 2/
@ImranKhanPTI 2/ teeth that you get for 1) Being arrogant in the extreme: look at yourself. You never even acknowledged my thanking you and other colleagues in the FO for your support - whatever there was of it - during my ambassadorship in Havana, which I wrote in the last paragraph of 3/
3/ my resignation letter on the 14th August 2018 exactly when it became clear that #nikkaNiazi was going to stay #RIGGED; 2) For never standing up for what is right and letting Aabpara treat you like serfs; 3) For meekly letting one of the 'multiple departments' in the larger 4/